sports updates

well well well.....now it's all clear...Pete Carroll is leaving USC because he "loves a challenge".....nothing to do with $$ or a pending investigation at USC...I geuss Seattle was the first team in 6 years to actually "challenge" good ol Pete with an offer....who knew that's all it would take....i bet a lot of other GM's and AD's around the country have egg on their face now....Seattle better hope nobody else challenges Pete....because he loves a challenge.

Bud Selig says that Big Macs admission was a footnote from the steroid era which thankfully is in the past....maybe he was on vacation six months ago when Manny was suspended , A-Rod Confessed , and Big Pappy almost confessed.........it's all or none for baseball as far as the Hall of Fam , or at least in should be.....if you penalize a guy who used steroids in the 90's ( baseball did not offcially adopt a drug policy towards PEDs until 2002 and did not begin testing until 2005) the certainly you have to levy that same punishment against those who used a ban substance since then....all or none.

on the bright side of sports.....we are officially into Derby Season 2010 , and since I will be going this year I will add extended coverage leading up on thsi blog....this weekend starts some of the early PREPs. here is an excerpt from ESPNs coverage of the road to derby 2010.

Four of the first five races on Saturday's Gulfstream Park card are for
the 3-year-old boys, headed by the $100,000 Spectacular Bid Stakes at
six furlongs. We'll give the main event its just due after a look at the
undercard lead-ins.
Race 1 is a turf sprint where the Frank Calabrese-Wesley Ward filly
CRIMSON GLORY, impeccably bred by Ghostzapper out of Buy The Sport,
appears the most intriguing entrant regardless of sex. Race 2 is a weak
entry-level allowance by early season Gulfstream standards, and one that
highly regarded MISSION IMPAZIBLE should handle if he's as good as I
think he is. The half-brother to Forest Camp was gawky and in need of
distance last spring for Todd Pletcher. The TAP barn also sends out
THREE DAY RUSH, fifth in the G3 Iroquois.
Gulfstream's Race 4 Saturday is for maiden special weight milers, and it
grades out only so-so on paper, but big on pedigree potential. Of those
with racing success, SYSTEMIC RISK has paired back-to-back fourth-place
finishes in stakes, including the G2 Nashua. But it's the bloodlines
that intrigue here. READY TO DAZZLE (Mark Hennig) is out of Eye Dazzler,
runner-up in the G2 Davona Dale over this track, and showed some life in
two New York starts last fall; MARCHING TUNE (Chad Brown) showed little
at Aqueduct in the debut, but hails from the female family that produced
Flanders, Surfside and My Boston Gal; KEROUAC (Nick Zito) debuts, and is
by Rock Hard Ten out of a half-sister to 1993 Kentucky Derby champion
Sea Hero. Meanwhile, second-timer DESERT LORD (Kiaran McLaughlin) is a
half-brother to G1 Matron winner Marylbone and from the same female
family as Came Home. MOE MAN (Ian Wilkes) is half-brother to Al Khali, a
graded turf stakes-winning sophomore of 2009.